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| DragonLegend | Feb 28 2010, 06:11 PM Post #16 |
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Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are set to completely bankrupt the US in a couple of decades. Not exactly what I'd call a success.
Do you really think America's public education is anything but substandard? |
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| UnknownCow | Feb 28 2010, 06:32 PM Post #17 |
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Except other socialized countries have better education, so you can't blame it on the idea of government run education, even if you can blame our government run education. |
| "Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution." -G. K. Chesterton | |
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| DragonLegend | Feb 28 2010, 07:02 PM Post #18 |
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I don't know about other countries, but I can't think of any American government entitlement programs that turned out to be successes. |
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| Ww2nerd | Feb 28 2010, 08:16 PM Post #19 |
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Well, I can vouch that American education is an epic fail...... It's mocked almost daily here. |
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"There are strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold... the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see... was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee." - Robert W. Service | |
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| DragonLegend | Feb 28 2010, 08:36 PM Post #20 |
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Public education. Private schools and homeschooling are top-notch. |
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| Ww2nerd | Feb 28 2010, 11:10 PM Post #21 |
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Home-schooling? Seriously? |
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"There are strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold... the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see... was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee." - Robert W. Service | |
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| DragonLegend | Feb 28 2010, 11:23 PM Post #22 |
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| _Иван_ | Feb 28 2010, 11:28 PM Post #23 |
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By the way WW2Nerd, why do you hate home-school so much? But, actually, I still find private and public education to be superior, just because there is more social interaction in those systems. Something that I find very important. |
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| DragonLegend | Feb 28 2010, 11:39 PM Post #24 |
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Social interaction, you could argue that, but we're talking about the quality of education here. |
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| Neitzluber | Mar 1 2010, 12:27 AM Post #25 |
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Where's the source for your graph? Home-schooling is a bad idea because the world is not a vacuum. You may have more education, but without the people-skills, you're useless. Humans work in groups, not as individuals. Imagine an engineer, the best in the world, but has no damn idea how to deal with people... how is he going to get his designs to fruition? He can't. |
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| DragonLegend | Mar 1 2010, 12:34 AM Post #26 |
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Yeah, because home-schooled kids just stay at home 24/7. ![]() And the source is http://www.act.org/news/data.html You can find the results for every year in that graph there. |
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| Neitzluber | Mar 1 2010, 12:42 AM Post #27 |
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They certainly don't get nearly as much interaction. Homeschooled kids probably see their neighbors, and that's it. Normal school kids see hundreds of kids in a day. |
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| Ww2nerd | Mar 1 2010, 01:15 AM Post #28 |
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I don't hate it. I just don't think a parent is an adequate replacement for six years of university training a person to teach. The social interaction aspect also leaves a lot wanting. Here, public >>> home school in virtually every way. Except for Alberta's government enacted ignorance legislation, better known as bill 44. Remember, all you moral, homophobic parents: The Alberta government has your back, because we care. While we're at it, let's do away with that wishy washy established science and evolution. BILL 44 : BECAUSE IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
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| Neitzluber | Mar 1 2010, 01:41 AM Post #29 |
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Alberta is Canada's Texas. |
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| Ww2nerd | Mar 1 2010, 02:30 AM Post #30 |
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It's also Canada's conservative stronghold, run by incompetent conservatives, busily working for the conservatives the Albertans elected in the federal elections who are busy fking up the country with their idiotic conservative policies. Any questions? |
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